History of Prose Fiction, Volume 1G. Bell and sons, 1888 - Fiction |
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... incidents which had formerly awaked the most powerful emotions ; and the remembrance of which most strongly excites his ten- derness , or pride , or gratitude . Thus , in process of time , a mass of curious narrative is collected ...
... incidents which had formerly awaked the most powerful emotions ; and the remembrance of which most strongly excites his ten- derness , or pride , or gratitude . Thus , in process of time , a mass of curious narrative is collected ...
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... incidents seem to have been borrowed from that poem . Indeed the author mentions a number of writers prior to himself , particularly Antiphanes , from whom he had collected these wonderful relations . Aulus Gellius tells us , that ...
... incidents seem to have been borrowed from that poem . Indeed the author mentions a number of writers prior to himself , particularly Antiphanes , from whom he had collected these wonderful relations . Aulus Gellius tells us , that ...
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... incidents professedly incredible , with- out any attempt on the part of the author to give them the appearance of reality , it cannot perhaps be properly admitted into the number of romances . A considerable portion of the Metamorphoses ...
... incidents professedly incredible , with- out any attempt on the part of the author to give them the appearance of reality , it cannot perhaps be properly admitted into the number of romances . A considerable portion of the Metamorphoses ...
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... incident , as well as the subsequent one of the dog ( p . 19 ) , are closely imitated in Marino's “ Adone , ” c . 14. — LIEB . this intervention the lovers escape from the cave , but I. C CH . I. ] 17 IAMBLICHUS - BABYLONICA .
... incident , as well as the subsequent one of the dog ( p . 19 ) , are closely imitated in Marino's “ Adone , ” c . 14. — LIEB . this intervention the lovers escape from the cave , but I. C CH . I. ] 17 IAMBLICHUS - BABYLONICA .
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... incidents , though often abundantly ludicrous , are of a dark and gloomy cast ; a character which by no means appertains to the adventures in the subsequent romances of Heliodorus , Chariton , or Tatius . Besides these faults in the ...
... incidents , though often abundantly ludicrous , are of a dark and gloomy cast ; a character which by no means appertains to the adventures in the subsequent romances of Heliodorus , Chariton , or Tatius . Besides these faults in the ...
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